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In Ukraine's Kherson, brief ceasefire brings rare respite

Straits Times28 October 2026, 17:46 UTCUkraine

KHERSON, Ukraine, Oct 28 - Years of near-daily Russian drone and artillery attacks have turned the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson into a battered urban landscape where death is never far away.

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